Phonetics is the scientific study of sounds used in language. This study considers the two most influential accents in English: the British and the American. In particular, it examines how the sounds of English are made, asking: What do we do with our bodies to produce each different sound?
This book provides a clear and accessible evaluation of generative phonology, an area which has produced both rival interpretations and models to acco..
This work provides 50,000 words of prosodically-transcribed text from a variety of sources. The introduction explains fully the transcription conventi..
Traditionally, investigations into speech and pronounciation have relied on the unaided skills of the phonetician in recognising and reproducing spee..
This is an attempt to view historical phonological change as an ongoing, recurrent process. The author sees like events occurring at all periods, a ph..
This volume is an introduction to the linguistic structure of the French language. It illustrates the different ways to approaching and explaining is..
An important new text on phonetics which is studied on the majority of linguistic undergraduate degree courses. Also relevant for speech pathology cou..
First published in 1980, this book questions many of the assumptions that have accumulated around the subject of intonation as it occurs in spontaneou..
Traditionally, investigations into speech and pronounciation have relied on the unaided skills of the phonetician in recognising and reproducing spee..
This volume is an introduction to the linguistic structure of the French language. It illustrates the different ways to approaching and explaining is..